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VPS is the acronym for `Virtual Private Server`. Hosting companies provide customers the ability to rent computing resources, which are used to create and run virtual machines that are controlled by the customer, but run on the hosting company's hardware. Such a VM is known as a VPS.

I recently had to manually restore a server after a bad crash. I recreated the mailaccounts with Plesk and copied the mailboxes with all the emails back into their original location.
I had to do the ...

I uploaded a fresh copy of the latest wordpress 4.2.3 and uploaded it to a domain folder in /home/abc.com/public_html/ using Kloxo-MR file manager.
After setting up the wp-config file and setting up ...

We have a 1and1 vps running centos which is behaving strangely when we try to post/get to the cgi-bin.
We have a directory called Monitor under the cgi-bin so to hit a perl script inside it we would ...

I am having the following question:
I have a domain (let's say example.com) and I need to set up the proper records for the e-mail so that to minimize the possibility for a message to go to spam. I am ...

I'm using PuTTY for Windows to connect to dreamcompute-VPS(dreamhost). At dreamcompute panel, I created a private key and downloaded it, a .pem file. Using PuTTYgen, I converted this file to .ppk as ...

This is the first time I'm trying to set up a VPS, so please bare with me. I've followed the steps of Digital Ocean to create a droplet. I'm using Cloud9IDE for the development of my app.
The steps ...

I'm having a memory related issue with my vps on openvz platform and I guess that my hosting provider is overselling RAM. So, I'm thinking to move on a xen platform since ram cannot be oversold but I ...

There isn't a way to download a complete image from Digital Ocean VPS hosting through their web UI. How can I download an entire image of the VPS that I can use locally on a VM or upload to another ...

I am encountering a strange problem with my VPS provider and wondered if anyone here with firewall / sysadmin experience had seen anything like this.
Has anyone seen a situation where a firewall or ...

I was recently just installing SSL onto my server / website. Once I finished all the steps, I went to check my website using the https://www.breakwatersurfcompany.com which worked great, however. My ...

I have a script that runs on a VPS in a cheap cloud provider.
The scenario is: I trust my provider, but I prefer to make his life hard if he ever wants to steal my key.
All the interested folders in ...

i have a cloud vps at ovh having 8GB of ram, a 6 vCores processor and installed Parallels Plesk 12 on Ubuntu 14.04 (64 bits)
I have more than 10 sites in there but only 2 have traffic
From histats:
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when I receive a lot of traffic on my vps, I receive the error that there is no buffer space available. I would like to track if there is a leak, for example non-cached api requests, or to see from ...

Currently I have a VPS hosting ownCloud. I have added a domain name to the server, so now it is (an example) example.com instead of an IP. I was wondering if (and how) I could add another CMS at the ...

I have installed postfix following this tutorial but when I try to telnet mail.mydomain.com 110 (995,993,143 or 25) it throws the following error: Telnet: Unable to connect to remove host: Connection ...

Is it worth backing up an un-managed VPS? The technology seems to be so stable that crashes seems not likely to happen.
If so, what would be the best approach? I have read about backing up on the VPS ...

I'm trying to link my domain name registered at GoDaddy with my VPS from OVH (SoYouStart). I had to created an A Record to point to my IP and it works, however, it sometimes redirects me to the parked ...

I'm looking for a way to check load for Xen units on a xen Node run by Solusvm. I know OpenVZ can show container load in the solusvm panel. But if I go to load in svm for the Xen Node the load page is ...

Today we decided that the best course of action for our Ubuntu Server (VPS) would be to restore a back-up after too many settings had be changed to our Geoserver instance. However, after restoring the ...

My hosting provider offers VPS plans starting at 0.88 GHz processor and 512 MB RAM. I am not much familiar with VPS hosting but I wonder if this configuration will be faster than a typical household ...

I recently installed node on my VPS, and tried to complete a tutorial. I saved this code into server.js and hit node server.js in putty. I got instant "ban" from my VPS, I can't access it, however on ...

When I reinstall Debian 7 Wheezy on my VPS
I can choose between Minimal and Normal Debain 7 image.
I tried both and found that the Minimal image does not contain
e.g. the sudo command and configured ...

I have a ruby on rails application with mysql and mongodb (mongoid framework) running.
I tested a load test with siege with the setting -c 60 -r 10 on one page which have 2 stationsong find queries. ...